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BlogTheme now available for free!
30. Dec, 2008 by Adii Rockstar in New Themes
We’ve decided to end 2008 on a high and make BlogTheme available for public release. So with this free release, we are now already boasting four, very nice free themes – which will definitely receive a big boost in 2009 as well.
The decision to make this theme available for free now, after initially releasing it as a paid theme, might look strange to you, but we can assure you that there’s nothing dodgy about this decision at all… We simply feel that even though BlogTheme is a great-looking theme; the new pricing structure we trialed with the theme did not really have the effect we were aiming for. So instead of increasing the price of the theme (to be level with our other themes), we’d rather just release it for free!
We will also be taking care of all our users who have purchased a copy of BlogTheme until now. E-mails were sent out to them this morning, which offers them the opportunity to either exchange their copy of BlogTheme for any one of our other great themes or request a full refund for the purchase. If you haven’t received this email please contact us.
So everyone stays a winner around here… 
We hope that you enjoy your New Years’ celebrations tomorrow!
30 December 2008 at 6:08 am #
I’m not really a Wordpress user, but picked up this news via Twitter. I find your approach of offering an exchange of theme or a full refund of purchase to be extremely unusual to say the least and you are to be congratulated on your business methods.
Cheers,
Follow me on Twitter @RicRaftis
30 December 2008 at 6:15 am #
@Ric – Well, we try not do be average…
Plus – it really is our aim to put our users first every single time, even though we maintain that we’re only human. So ultimately it’s about being fair & reasonable.
30 December 2008 at 8:15 am #
woo! woo! It looks too neat and clean. I like it so much. Thanks for the free share.
30 December 2008 at 10:17 am #
Adii, Congratulation for the great decision!
30 December 2008 at 10:44 am #
Yeap, thanks to give the theme some freedom.
30 December 2008 at 11:04 am #
@Ivo – Well, it wasn’t just my decision…
But glad you like anyway!
30 December 2008 at 1:57 pm #
Does this release have anything to do with this theme’s lack of sales? They didn’t look very good on http://www.adii.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/the-woo-long-tail.jpg
30 December 2008 at 4:10 pm #
Free… a steal of a deal. Thanks for making BlogTheme available to us all!
31 December 2008 at 12:47 am #
@matt – No, not really. Remember that the graph is based on sales turnover and because BlogTheme was almost half the price of the other themes it could not compete turnover-wise, but was definitely competitive sales-wise.
4 January 2009 at 1:00 am #
Nice share!~ WooThemes is the best!
4 January 2009 at 5:30 pm #
Woo..
This, very very nice info.
I want to try at my blog And then, i will to publish at my blogs
7 January 2009 at 9:16 pm #
Theme is one of the best! for the price. you cant go wrong on this product.
David Fanshaw
http://www.v3Dates.com
9 January 2009 at 1:55 pm #
I like your customer service. Allowing costumers to exchange themes because they’ve already paid is the ethical thing to do.
11 January 2009 at 1:32 am #
woo woo wow,
thank you for the great theme
11 January 2009 at 3:46 pm #
tx for ur share. free free free
23 January 2009 at 3:16 am #
I love your free stuff
. Thanks you guys
12 February 2009 at 9:55 am #
It would be nice if install notes would be avalible as well. When I try to open docs file it informs me that I should be registered to see it.
Could some one please help? Thanks so much!
12 February 2009 at 10:06 am #
Another thing that inerests me is how do I ad captions to the pages (header links) …
Anybody??!
21 March 2009 at 6:53 am #
hey… what’s your source on this?
31 March 2009 at 7:37 am #
This is right here, in the present, not the future.